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Looking at other examples in sci-fi, perhaps to stop my body from pressing its off-switch?

If we're still calling Guile a Scheme (I'm out of the loop) then I don't know, it gets really bloody close. Not so much in image-based development (that I've usually found less good than a decent packaging system because the contents of my files on disk is usually more tractable than the contents of my image), but its object system and error handling are definitely up there close to CL.

I mean, Common Lisp is still the gold-standard for me, but reading about Hoot recently really made me want to check Guile out a bit more (CL does not have much in the way of lovely WASM stories right now) and, honestly, I was super impressed. I think if the interactive experience of developing in Hoot in the browser matched the interactive experience of developing in native Guile, I'd be a pretty happy convert.

Probably read the rest? I did not see Jensen's name on any of the patents that this key engineer discusses the detail and rationale of, and I feel that those names are listed fairly deliberately.

Growing up to Scottish and Irish Catholics in England, I remember talking to a bunch of Ulster protestants as a teenager when the topic turned to religion - I said "Well, I was raised Catholic but I'm not really a believer of any kind" and the response was "Ah, so you're one of THOSE Catholics!".

Turns out there are a lot of 'those' Catholics.

> "the solution to bad speech is more speech"

Yes, but when enough people who otherwise have little actual power get together to drown out "bad speech" with "more speech" it gets called 'cancel culture' and 'witch hunts' and is used as the primary example of 'censorship' on social media.

There's a lot of it about, mate. The other day I had an American tell me with a straight face that we can get jail time for flying a Union Flag here in Blighty - I guess there's a big industry for convincing people that everywhere else is a hellhole over there.

If "I think we need to massively curtail people's liberty in order to remove our enemies and establish a white national ethnostate" vs "we need to stop those guys" is your idea of "ape tribalism" then I'm not sure that you're really available for reasonable discussion here.

This caught me out when I was a teenager. Luckily, there was a chap in the Museum of Computing who was spending his Sunday working on the Colossus, and he was happy to let me in and show me around! I'll never forget that kindness, it was truly a fascinating trip.

I am also getting this in Firefox on Linux. Don't think I've ever seen this particular failure mode before!

Okay, I'll give you that. Let me rephrase: Industry-led regulation can work, in industries that won't kill anyone or even realistically lose anyone a bunch of money for non-compliance, if-and-only-if government regulation exists as a real and powerful enough alternative to make it stick.

Industry-led regulation has never worked in the entire history of the world.

Not as far as I can tell. You're right that China does seem to be in a fairly unique position to actually do this though - it is interesting to consider what would happen if they did. Looking at recent engineering failures at Boeing, Tesla, Volkswagen etc., such enforcement of engineering standards could even give them a competitive advantage on the world stage in a way that markets captured by lobbyists could never realistically achieve.

Unless that smell is oil. Or gasoline. Or burning rubber. Or petrichor. Or just plain old smoke.

Or the touch is the feeling of road surface changing, or the steering wheel getting harder to turn / having no effect at all, or the rush of air if a door flies open...